Subject: RE: Understanding character handling
From: "Lawton, Scott" <slawton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:43:16 -0500
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> > The need for this is very real. If we can't write entity references in
our
> > result document, we're reduced to using all manner of horrible kludges
to make
> > our viewers see the right thing. Who wants to do...
> > ... contortions with nbsp deleted.
> Why is this a problem. is just the character  , so why do you
> need to write `nbsp'. No machine parsing the result will care which you
use.
Jumping in: That, of course, is the crux of the problem. Some code that
processes the result *will* care -- if not about , certainly about
some entities. I'd like to be able to transform XML without validating --
and without declaring entities (or a result namespace). The need for such a
transformer is real; whether or not the XSL WG wants XSL to be this
transformer is another question.
$0.25,
Scott
(as always, speaking only for myself not the company at which I'm currently
contracting)
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